Women across the country who feel unsafe or threatened by this situation transparently do not have the same access to the airwaves or the newsprint as Simon Harris does.
Suffered severe injuries.
The problem for a society without the death penalty is that it is left with only the ordinary responses to an extraordinary crime.
“A serious issue that demands immediate attention.”
Two arrests.
There will be more riots, and more discontent, and more disorder. Whether people like me condemn it or not.
Base politics.
Half of the law-and-order pledges Fianna Fáil made in its 2019 local election manifesto have re-appeared in their 2024 manifesto. Ben Scallan asks Education Minister Norma Foley why the public should believe her party will achieve these if they didn’t over the last 5 years.
That this cannot go on is obvious. That if it does go on much worse will follow is something that a blind man – even one blinded by pepper spray – could see.
If this were simply a one-off, one might regard it as simply an unusual, if concerning development, and move on. But it is not a one-off.
His opponents can now plausibly and accurately claim that he in fact endorses McEntee’s record in Justice – not just what she might do in the future but what she has already done in the past.
Sex offences down.